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J. DRADER.

DOUBLE ACTION HAY GAR.

No. 332,704. Patented Dec. 22, 1885.

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JOSEPH DRADER, OF LONDON, ONTARIO, CANADA.

DOUBLE-ACTION HAY-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 332,704, dated December 22, 1885,

Application filed September 14, 1885.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JosEPH DRADER, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at London, in the county of Middlesex and Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Double-Action Hay-Cars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to improvements in the mechanism of hay-cars which are intended to run both ways on the track, the object be ing to simplify their construction and to obtain greater certainty of action.

In the accompanying drawings of my invention, Figure 1 shows the car with side partially removed as the mechanism appears when open and ready for receiving the pulley. Fig. 2 is a similar view of car locked and ready for traveling to mound. Fig. Sis adetail ofjoint seen on top. Fig. 4 shows the groove in one of the arms ofjoint for connecting pin.

A is the track on which the car Bruns. G is the stop-block, bolted to under side of track. D is the latch shaped, substantially as shown, and pivoted at a. E E are a pair of grapnels, the jaws b and I) of which grasp and hold the head a of pulley-wheel F when the latter is raised up to them. These grapnels are pivoted at d d, and they are joined by their extension pieces or arms G G, being connected by pin 6 passing through both. The shape of thisjoint is shown at Fig. 3. It will be seen that the arms G are mortised to receive the end of opposite arm, G. In this arm G the slotf, Fig. 4, is formed to allow the arm in opening and shutting to play freely on pin e, which passes through it, and also through mortised ends of arm G. When the head of pulley-wheel is out,the latch and grapnels will hang in the position shown in Fig. 1, the lattor being weighted and pivoted so as to fall forward at their heads, and the bottom of latch resting, upon them. Vhen the fork, with its load,is raised by the draft on rope H, thehead of the pulley-block F, carrying the fork, enters between the open jaws of the grapnels and strikes against under side of jointed arms G G, pushing them upward and rotating the Serial No.'l77,102. (No modcLi grapnels E E on their pivots, so that their jaws b I) close upon the head 0 of pulley-block and grip it, holding it and the fork in that position. WVhile these jaws are thrown forward the rounded heads 9 g ofgrapnels are thrown back, and the draft on the latch against block O causes it also to rotate on its pivot, so that one end falls on the head of one of the grapnels E.

In Fig. 2 the car is drawn in the direction marked by arrow. Consequently the end h is the one that falls down on grapnel. These ends are shaped as shown in the drawingsthat is, a portion of the latch at each end is cut out at right angles, and when the end falls the face i of the lower portion strikes against the face of the grapnel and looks it, preventing the jaws b b from opening. The car is then drawn along the track to mound, where the fork is tripped and the load discharged. The car is then drawn back to its formerplace until the end h of the latch D strikes against the under side of block 0, which causes the opposite end, h, of latch to lift and frees the grapnel E, allowing the jaws b and b to expand, and letting the fork descend to take up a fresh load.

This car is constructed to work both ways, the ends of latch and also the grapnels being duplicates.

No claim is made herein to double-action hay-cars in themselves, as I am aware that they are old, but to the specific devices shown and described as to the principle involved.

WVhat I claim is 1. In a doubleaction hay-car, the latch D, shaped and operating substantially as shown and described.

2. The grapnels E E, joined by pivoted arms G G, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination of latch D and grapnels E E with ordinary stop-block, O, and head of pulley-block F, substantially as shown and described.

JOSEPH DRADER. [L s] Witnesses:

HENRY BEECH, RICHARD HAYLY. 

